MOORE, Richard K. "From that [truth-delivering] red-pill perspective, everyday media-consensus reality--like the Matrix in the film--is seen to be a fabricated collective illusion"

Richard K Moore, according to Global
Research “is an
expatriate from Silicon Valley, retired and moved to Ireland in 1994 to begin his ‘real
work’ – trying to understand how the world works, and how we can make it
better. Many years of researching and writing culminated in his widely
acclaimed bookEscaping the
Matrix: How We the People Can Change the World (The Cyberjournal Project,
2005)” (see: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27891and http://escapingthematrix.org/
).

Richard K. Moore on
the “fabricated collective illusion” of the “everyday media-consensus” (2000):
“The defining dramatic moment in the film The Matrix occurs just after
Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill
promises "the truth, nothing more." Neo takes the red pill and awakes
to reality--something utterly different from anything Neo, or the audience,
could have expected. What Neo had assumed to be reality turned out to be only a
collective illusion, fabricated by the Matrix and fed to a population that is
asleep, cocooned in grotesque embryonic pods. In Plato's famous parable about
the shadows on the walls of the cave, true reality is at least reflected
in perceived reality. In the Matrix world, true reality and perceived reality
exist on entirely different planes. The
story is intended as metaphor, and the parallels that drew my attention had to
do with political reality. This article offers a particular perspective on
what's going on in the world--and how things got to be that way--in this era of
globalization. From that red-pill perspective, everyday media-consensus
reality--like the Matrix in the film--is seen to be a fabricated collective
illusion… Escaping the matrix.The matrix cannot fool all of the
people all of the time. Under the onslaught of globalization, the glitches are
becoming ever more difficult to conceal--as earlier, with the Vietnam War.”
[1].